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NPD 7101.1A Effective Date: Aug 15, 2016

Expiration Date: Aug 15, 2021

NOAA/NESDIS

NESDIS OSPO RETIREMENT AND DIVESTURE OF

ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE PRODUCTS

August 15, 2016 COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY

Prepared by:

Josh Jankot

U.S. Department of Commerce

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Purpose

1.1 Purpose

Chapter 2: Retirement and Divesture Policy

2.1 Background

2.2 Rescissions

2.3 Authorities

2.4 Applicability and Scope

2.5 Policy

2.6 Roles and Responsibilities

2.7 Inquiries

Chapter 3: Satellite Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB)

Process

3.1 Product Divestiture or Retirement Phase

3.2 Diagram of Divestiture or Retirement Phase

3.3 Initiation of the Retirement/Divestiture Process

3.4 Preliminary Decision on Suitability for Retirement/Divestiture

3.5 User Notification and Impact Assessment

3.6 Final Decision on Retirement and/or Divestiture

3.7 User Notification and Implementation of Decision

3.8 Appeal of SPSRB Decision or SPSRB Non-Consensus Vote

3.9 Simplified Retirement Process

Appendix A: Acronyms

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Chapter 1: Purpose

1. 1 Purpose

To establish guidance and standards for the termination and/or divestiture of

environmental satellite products and broadcast services provided by the National Satellite

and Information Service (NESDIS). Contents of this policy directive are intended to

ensure the effective management of Federal Government fiscal, personnel and

information resources used in the processing and distribution of environmental satellite

data, generation of higher level satellite products and the operation of satellite broadcast

services used for the provision of environmental satellite information. These NESDIS

products and services are provided through the shared efforts of intra-agency, inter-

agency and intergovernmental partners in response to the validated requirements of

authorized Government users.

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Chapter 2: Retirement and Divesture Policy

2.1 Background

NESDIS recognizes that NOAA environmental satellite systems and the resulting data and

products are important elements of the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems

(GEOSS) and are used for the benefit of society in nine areas including disasters, health, energy,

climate, water, weather, ecosystems, agriculture and biodiversity. NESDIS operates

environmental satellite data processing and distribution systems in support of federal statutes,

NOAA mission and other agreements. NESDIS provides level-0, level-1 calibrated and

navigated environmental satellite data, level-2+ automated environmental satellite products and

interpretative satellite-based environmental analyses in support of the NOAA Programs, other

Federal Government agencies, international and intergovernmental organizations, state and local

governments, commercial organizations and the general public. NOAA Program satellite

observational requirements are defined in a NESDIS Consolidated Observational User

Requirements List (COURL) data base. The Satellite Products and Services Review Board

(SPSRB) manage and administer lifecycle decisions on NESDIS satellite products. Authorized

user requests submitted to the SPSRB, that are supported by the COURL requirements, result in

the expenditure of considerable resources by NESDIS to develop, transition and maintain new

and existing satellite products in operations. To allow the effective use of resources, this

NESDIS policy will be used by the SPSRB to manage decisions to transfer or retire satellite

products deemed to be of little or no value to the user or are cost prohibitive for the NESDIS

Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) to continue production or the Office of

Satellite Ground Services (OSGS) to sustain while still fulfilling the expectations of authorized

Government and non-Government users. Decisions regarding transfer or retirement of products

will be based upon results of OSPO and OSGS audit procedures.

2.2 Rescissions

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2.3 Authorities

▪ Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. §§ 3501-3520) - requires that agencies ensure the public has

timely and equitable access to their public information and that agencies not, except where

authorized by statute, establish exclusive or restricted distribution arrangements; restrict or

regulate use, resale or re-dissemination of information by the public; charge users fees or

royalties for resale or re-dissemination of public information; or establish user fees for public

information that exceeds the cost of dissemination .

▪ Office Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130 (61 FR6428) - Management of Federal

Information Resources: establishes policy for the management of Federal information resources

throughout the information lifecycle to minimize cost and maximize usefulness to users; requires

agencies to consider the effects of decisions on the public and state/local governments and

maintain an information dissemination system that promotes free and open access to the public.

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OMB A-130 Appendix III also requires the Federal Government agencies to establish

interconnection agreements and obtain written management authorization before connecting their

IT systems to other systems, based on an acceptable level of risk.

▪ NOAA Administrative Order 212-15 (2008) - Management of Environmental and Geospatial

Data and Information: This Order establishes a National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) policy for acquiring, integrating, managing, disseminating, and

archiving environmental and geospatial data and information obtained from worldwide sources to

support the mission of NOAA.

▪ NOAA Administrative Order 216-112 (2006) - Policy on Partnerships in the Provision of

Environmental Information: recognizes that the nation’s environmental information enterprise

consists of services provided by the government, academic and private sectors; commits NOAA

to give due consideration to the capabilities of these sectors and consider the effects of its

decisions on these entities.

▪ Rules Schedule for Fees for Access to NOAA Environmental Data (15 CFR Part 950) (2009):

Defines rules for users to have the ability to access data offline, online and through the NESDIS

eCommerce System (NeS) online store. Ability to provide these data, information and products

and services depends on user fees.

▪ Clinger-Cohen Act (1996): provides guidance on how the Federal Government can improve how

it acquires, uses and disposes of Information Resources. The goal of the Act is: to improve the

productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of Federal programs; require Government to use the

budget process to analyze, track, and evaluate risks, results, and benefits of all major capital

investments for the life of information systems; determine whether the function to be supported

by the system should be performed by the private sector; provide the means to evaluate the

progress of an investment in an information system including measurement of schedule, cost and

the capability of the system to meet specified requirements, timeliness, and quality.

▪ Presidents Management Agenda (2001): requires the Federal Government to address specific

areas of improvement including becoming more citizen-centric and customer-focused via

increased E-government initiatives and competitive out-sourcing of federal functions to private

industry.

2.4 Applicability and Scope

This policy directive, to be used in information lifecycle management decisions, applies to the

termination or divestiture of operational environmental satellite products provided by the

NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) and sustained by the Office of

satellite Ground Services (OSGS). NESDIS operational environmental satellite data and products

are provided in support of the core NOAA mission to understand and predict changes in the

Earth’s environment and in a manner consistent with the NOAA Administrative Order 216-112

Partnership Policy, OMB Circular A-130 and oversight guidance from the NESDIS Satellite

Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB). The NOAA/NESDIS SPSRB manages all

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aspects of the NESDIS satellite product lifecycle. More information relating to the SPSRB and

its charter can be found at http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/SPSRB/index.htm .

This policy directive applies to the following types of product divestiture and retirement requests:

● Operational environmental satellite data and higher level products provided by the NESDIS

Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) and sustained by the Office of Satellite

Ground Services (OSGS).

● 3rd

party NON-NOAA satellite data and products that are processed and distributed by

NESDIS/OSPO.

● Satellite data and products that are considered experimental and/or pre-operational and being

processed and distributed by NESDIS/OSPO and sustained by NESDIS/OSGS.

This policy directive does not apply to the following types of product divestiture and retirement requests

or under the following circumstances:

● Experimental satellite products still under development and testing on IT systems operated by the

NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), their research partners,

Cooperative Institutes and NESDIS program managers such as the NESDIS Office of Projects,

Planning & Analysis (OPPA) and Office of Satellite Ground Services (OSGS). Guidelines for

interacting with the NESDIS research community and program managers are contained in their

websites at http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/index.php and http://www.osd.noaa.gov.

● NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archive products such as

climate data records or products that require reprocessing of long-term temporal data and thus are

not deemed an operational product by NESDIS/OSPO. Guidelines for interacting with the

NESDIS NCEI communities are contained in their websites located at

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/

2.5 Definitions

Authorized user – NOAA line offices, NOAA programs and/or other Government agencies and

their representatives that are recognized by NOAA/NESDIS to have valid mission requirements

for satellite data and services

Divestiture – transfer of the responsibility for the production and dissemination of a satellite

product to another organization.

Experimental satellite data and products – new or enhanced satellite data and products that are in

the research and development phase of the satellite product lifecycle. These products are

maintained by best effort only.

Interpretative satellite-based analyses – satellite analysis products, generated by humans that are

tailored to improve accuracy and value to the user.

Level-0 – reconstructed unprocessed instrument data at full resolution; and any and all

communications artifacts (e.g., synchronization frames, communications headers) removed.

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http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/index.php

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Level-1a – level-0 data with all supplemental information appended for use in subsequent

processing

Level-1b – level-0 data with radiometric and geometric correction applied to produce parameters

in physical units

Level-2 – derived environmental variables (e.g., sea surface temperature, surface winds, snow

cover) at a comparable temporal and spatial resolution to the Level 1 source.

Level-2+ – all level 2 and higher products

Level-3 – data or retrieved environmental variables which have been spatially and/or temporally

re-sampled. Such re-sampling may include averaging and/or compositing.

Level-4 – model output or results from analysis of lower level data (data that are not directly

measured by the instruments, but are derived from these measurements)

Data Access Request Policy - Policy establishing guidance and standards for setting priorities and

managing user access to and distribution of operational environmental satellite data and products

provided by the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS)

through the Office of Satellite and Product Operations.

Long-term archive – satellite data and products that are acquired and stored for extended periods

of time. Users, without stringent timeliness requirements, can obtain satellite data and products

from NOAA/NESDIS Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) and other facilities.

Operational satellite products – production and distribution of near real-time satellite data and

products that are maintained 24 hours a day and 7 days per week.

Pre-operational satellite data and products – new or enhanced satellite data and products that have

been promoted from the research and development phase and are in the process of being

evaluated by users. Pre-operational data and products are maintained by best effort and are

expected to achieve operational status within 12 months.

Product – collection of one or more geophysical variables derived from remotely sensed data that

is uniformly packaged, processed and formatted and made available to a user with associated

ancillary data. Products may be classified as Level 0, 1a, 1b, 2+, 3 or 4 depending on their degree

of processing.

Product Lifecycle – the requirements, research and development, pre-operations, operations and

retirement and/or divestiture of a satellite product.

Resources - fiscal, personnel and information technology assets

Retirement - termination of the production and dissemination of a satellite product

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Satellite broadcast services – transmission of satellite data and products directly from satellites in

orbit to receiving ground stations. Any user with the appropriate ground station equipment can

acquire the signal and receive the broadcast.

Satellite Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB) – a NESDIS executive decision board

that manages the lifecycle of new or enhanced satellite products from research and development

to implementation into operations and retirement.

Third party satellite data and products – data and products obtained from non-NOAA satellites

via agreements with other satellite data providers. 3rd

party data are often not processed by

NESDIS/OSPO and simply distributed, as it is received, from interagency or international

partners. In some cases, OSPO processing may tailor the data or products before sending it to

secondary users.

User requests - the process for users to request specified data and products from NOAA/NESDIS.

Validated Requirements – documented and approved needs of NOAA, U.S. Government agencies

and other authorized users for satellite data and products.

2.6 Policy

NESDIS will implement the standards and principles described below in the manner prescribed.

OSPO will review the standards on an annual basis and make modifications to the policy as

appropriate.

Product Divestiture and Retirement Policy Standards and Principles:

a) In accordance with the authorities referenced in section 2.3 above, NESDIS recognizes

the need for the management of Federal Government information technology resources

throughout the satellite product lifecycle to minimize cost and maximize usefulness to

users.

b) Satellite products no longer meeting the original requirements of authorized users as

determined by OSPO audit procedures will be divested or retired from operations.

c) Satellite products deemed to be used only by user applications that do not require real-

time operational satellite data, such as long-term climatology-based observational

records, will be candidates for divestiture to a government or commercial partner for

continued production or will be retired from operations.

d) Replacement satellite products, generated from new satellites and/or instruments, deemed

to be of equivalent or superior quality, better maintainability and produced with higher

efficiency will be assigned a higher priority for continued operations.

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e) Satellite products that are used by other applications or observing systems as input and

thus creating a dependency on that product will be assigned a higher priority for

continued operations.

f) Lower priority products, as determined by user feedback and audit results, will be

candidates to be divested to a government or commercial partner for continued

production or will be retired from operations.

g) Audit criteria and detailed procedures governing satellite product divestiture and

retirement decisions will be maintained by OSPO in coordination with OSGS.

2.7 Roles and Responsibilities

NESDIS OSPO will be responsible for maintaining and proposing updates to this product

divestiture and retirement document. OSPO will develop and maintain procedures for

implementing this policy, and coordinate those procedures with OSGS. OSPO shall work with

the SPSRB to finalize and notify all users of decisions on all product retirement and divestiture

requests.

2.8 Inquiries

All questions and inquiries should be sent to [email protected] or to the NOAA Center

for Weather and Climate Prediction, Satellite Products and Services Division, User Services

Team, 5830 University Research Court, Room 3600, College Park, MD 20740. Telephone: (301)

683-3248 or (301) 683-3242.

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Chapter 3: Satellite Products and Services Review

Board (SPSRB) Process

3.1 Product Divestiture or Retirement Phase

The purpose of the Product Retirement or Divestiture phase is to identify products that are

no longer needed and can be terminated or the responsibility for production can be

divested or transferred to another organization. This process provides for the opportunity

to obtain user feedback and for the evaluation of that input by several levels of

management at key decision-making points leading either to the termination or transfer of

the production of that product or service.

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3.2 Diagram of Divestiture or Retirement Phase

Initiating Event Notify Users

(PALs / User Services)

Preliminary Decision OSPO / SPSD

Cease Production

Assess and Consolidate Input

OSPO / SPSD Audit Process

Update Databases

Comment/Rebuttal Period (Users)

Final Decision (SPSRB / OSPO)

Assess Input & Prepare Briefing (SPSRB

Manager)

Notify Users and Partners (PALs / User Services)

OSPO Mgmt Review

Continue Production

Transfer Production

Notify Users

(PALs / User Services)

Implement Transition Plan (PALs, OPS, Partners)

NO

NO DIVEST

Retire

Appeal Process

NO

YES

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3.3 Initiation of the Retirement/Divestiture Process

There are three broad categories of initiating events that may lead to a recommendation

for product retirement or divestiture. These include: system-driven, user-driven, and

fiscally-driven events. System-driven events include the failure, upgrade, or replacement

of a satellite platform, satellite instrument or IT system. User-driven events result from

evolving or new user requirements. Fiscally-driven events are those that necessitate

ceasing or transferring production based on limited resources or changing organizational

missions. It is recognized that for each initiating event, there must be a responsible party

and criteria for initiating a product retirement or divestiture process. OSPO as the owner

of the retirement process, may receive recommendations for product retirement and/or

divestiture from any entity in the SPSRB process including the user, Product Oversight

Panels (POPs), Product Area Leads (PALs) and scientists, program managers, NESDIS

NCEI, STAR, OSPO, OSGS management and internal or external oversight boards.

Descriptions of initiating events and responsible parties can be found below in Table 1.

Initiating Event Initiating Criteria Responsible Party

System-driven

Satellite instrument failure Degradation or unavailable

data

OSPO; STAR; OSPO

Satellite platform failure Unavailable data OSGS; OSPO

New satellite instrument/

platform

New and possibly improved

data

OSGS; STAR; OSPO

New, improved product Improved quality; new

algorithm; new parameter

OSPO; STAR

New IT systems New production system OSPO; OSGS

User-driven

Quarterly product audit and

re-validation of user

requirements

Revalidate original user

requirement; continuous

customer satisfaction plan

OSPO

Quarterly product audit and

objective product-use metrics

Metrics indicate no interest in

product by user; continuous

customer satisfaction

OSPO

Established decommissioning

date

Agreement with user for

divestiture or retirement

OSPO

Fiscally-driven

Reduction in fiscal or

personnel resources

Annual ORF or PAC funding

not adequate; automation of

products realized

OSPO; OSGS

User ceases funding for

production

PPBES or external product

development/implementation

funding not realized or

OSPO; OSGS

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terminated

Not part of mission Re-focus of assets; identical

product produced by other

agency

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In response to the User-Driven and Fiscally-Driven initiating events, OSPO defined and

documented product audit criteria and procedures in “Environmental Satellite Product

Audit Procedures” (ver3.2 Jan, 2014). OSPO executes performance audits at regular

intervals during the lifecycle of all operational satellite products. One of the principal

objectives of the audit is to determine whether the product still meets the original user

requirements and performance specifications. Feedback on the importance of various

products will be obtained through direct but informal correspondence between PALs, the

OSPO/SPSD User Services Team and the users. The outcome from a performance audit

will be a preliminary recommendation by the independent audit review team to either

continue production or to proceed with the retirement or divestiture of the product.

3.4 Preliminary Decision on Suitability for Retirement/Divestiture

Once a product is identified as a candidate for retirement or divesture from the results of

the audit, OSPO will make a preliminary decision on whether to proceed with the

recommended retirement/divestiture or continue production. If OSPO determines that

there is sufficient justification for retirement or divestiture, then OSPO will move

forward to the next step of formally notifying users/partners and gathering comments

during a defined rebuttal period.

3.5 User Notification and Impact Assessment

Feedback will be obtained from two groups of users: primary and secondary users.

Primary users are those customers that are well-known to the Product Area Lead (PAL)

and may very well be the originator of the product’s User Request. Primary users will be

NOAA or other Government organizations. Secondary users are those users who utilize

the product but may not be known as users by the PAL. This lack of awareness is often

attributable to distribution methods such as web pages or ftp sites that lack accountability.

Notification of user of the intent to retire a product will be accomplished via two methods

including: (1) a broadcast e-mail notification from the ESPC help Desk and from the PAL

and (2) the announcement of the retirement via the NESDIS Partnership Policy website at

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/PartnershipPolicy.html. These notifications will inform the

users that they have 30 days to provide feedback on the impact of the proposed retirement

on their applications. Typically, if no input is received by the end of that time period, it

is construed as consent to retire or divest the product. In order to ensure notifications

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reach secondary users, an announcement of intent to retire/divest the product will be

placed on the appropriate OSPO product web pages. In the case of divestiture, the PAL

will liaise with the identified operational partner who has agreed to assume responsibility

for the production of that product. The PAL will inform them of the intent of NESDIS to

cease production of the product and will inform the operational partner that they also can

provide information on the impact of the product retirement if they desire. In most cases,

the coordination to transfer production responsibility to another agency should have

already occurred by this time in the process. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment

and rebuttal period, feedback on user impacts will be consolidated along with any

supporting information, into a Final Product Retirement/Divestiture brief for final review

by OSPO management.

3.6 Final Decision on Retirement and/or Divestiture

The decision to retire or divest a product will reside with the SPSRB based on the

recommendation and presentation by OSPO management. The SPSRB will decide to

either continue production or retire/divest the product. A consensus vote is required for

the final decision to retire or divest a product. The SPSRB voting membership is the

appropriate body for making this decision since feedback will be considered from

representatives of all the NESDIS satellite service organizations, the NWS, NOS, NMFS

and the NCEI. The NWS, NOS, NMFS and NCEI are the foremost consumers of

NESDIS satellite data and, therefore, have the greatest stake in the continued production

or retirement of a product. One possible outcome from the SPSRB voting membership

could be that they require additional information to make a decision. In this case, the

SPSRB Manager will solicit this additional information from the necessary source. The

SPSRB Manager will have 30 days to obtain this information and deliver it to the

SPSRB. With the additional information in hand, the SPSRB should make all efforts to

render a decision within 10 working days by proxy vote, if necessary.

3.7 User Notification and Implementation of Decision

The decision of the SPSRB will be carried out during the Notification and

Implementation Phase. If the Board decides that the product in question should stay in

production, the SPSRB Manager will close the action and notify all parties of the

decision.

If the decision of the Board is to RETIRE the product, the implementation of this

retirement will occur within 30 days of the SPSRB decision. There may be exceptions to

the 30-day retirement mandate. In those cases, the final termination of the processing and

distribution of a product will not take place for up to but not exceed a 12 month grace

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period, thereby allowing users to terminate any dependence and switch to other product

alternatives. During this 30-day period, three actions must be completed.

First, the SPSRB will notify all users, including pertinent NOAA Program managers, of

the decision to retire the product. This notification will take two forms. First, within 5

working days, the SPSRB Manager shall notify the appropriate PAL of the decision to

retire the product. The responsibility for notifying primary users will then shift to the

PAL. The PAL will also ensure that an announcement is posted to the appropriate OSPO

web pages that informs secondary users of the plan to retire the given product on a

specified date.

Second, the PAL will initiate a Configuration Change Request (CCR) and receive

approval from the ESPC Configuration Change Board (CCB) to formally “turn off” the

processing and distribution of the product.

Third, the PAL will update all necessary databases (e.g. PATRON CM data base and

SPEEDS) regarding the retired status of the product. This step will occur on the specified

retirement date.

If the decision of the Board is to DIVEST a given product, the implementation of this

divestiture will also involve three actions that need to be completed. Two of the three

will be similar to the retirement actions: the notification process and updating of

databases. The actual divestiture will be more complicated as it will involve an

organization outside the NESDIS umbrella. The responsible parties within NESDIS for

coordinating the divestiture process will be the applicable PAL and an appropriate point

of contact within the OSPO operational organization. The SPSRB Manager will notify

these individuals within 5 working days of the Board’s decision to divest the product.

This notification will include applicable information on the organization who is assuming

production responsibilities. The PAL and OSPO individuals will assume responsibility

for ensuring a smooth transition of production to the new, external partner. It is assumed

that the product transition plan, previously approved by both organizations, will specify a

time period to complete the product divestiture. It is recommended, however, that all

parties strive to carry out the process with a goal of completing the transition within 90-

180 days of the SPSRB decision.

3.8 Appeal of SPSRB Decision or SPSRB Non-Consensus Vote

An appeal of the SPSRB consensus decision or non-consensus vote of the SPSRB on a

product retirement can be made to the NESDIS Deputy Assistant Administrator. A non-

consensus vote may occur in cases where the product retirement is fiscally driven and

continuation of the product may adversely impact the capability of OSPO to ensure the

continuous and successful operation of NESDIS satellite processing and distribution

systems. Appeals can be submitted only by the SPSRB principals from OSPO, STAR

and/or OSGS. If desired, SPSRB principals could represent the concerns of major user

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organizations or interagency partners. The appeal process must be initiated by the

concerned party within 30 days of the SPSRB decision by notifying the SPSRB Manager.

The SPSRB Manager will then facilitate discussion with the SPSRB voting membership

who has 30 days after the appeal is filed to present their case to the DAA. During this

time, all retirement and/or divestiture activities will cease until a decision is rendered by

the NESDIS DAA. The appeal process would involve taking the same information and

briefing that was given to the SPSRB voting membership and have a designated member

of the SPSRB present that information to the NESDIS DAA. The NESDIS DAA is

charged with deciding whether to uphold the SPSRB decision or overturn it. The

NESDIS DAA decision will be final and binding. All comments, discussion, and votes

shall become a part of the permanent SPSRB record.

3.9 Simplified Retirement Process

The retirement process can be tailored in situations when product retirement does not require

user feedback. The purpose of simplified retirement process (Figure 4) is to speed up product

retirement. A simplified retirement process can be triggered when either of the following events

occurs:

(1) Sensor/Instrument failure

(2) Satellite failure (no immediate replacement)

(3) Product without an identified operational user from Product Audit

Figure 4 – Simplified Product Retirement Process

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The implementation of the simplified retirement will be completed within a month from the

occurrence of any of the events listed above. During this 30-day period, the following actions

must be completed:

Notification to users of the intent to retire a product will be sent from the ESPC help

Desk. The PAL will ensure that an announcement is posted to the appropriate OSPO web

pages including NESDIS Partnership Policy website at

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/PartnershipPolicy.html informing all users on the impending

change of the product status.

The PAL will initiate a CCR and receive approval from the ESPC Configuration Change

Board (CCB) formally to “turn off” the processing and distribution of the product.

OSPO management will make an announcement of the product retirement at the next

available session of the SPSRB.

The PAL will update all necessary databases (e.g. PATRON CM data base and SPEEDS)

regarding the retired status of the product. This step will occur on the specified

retirement date.

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Appendix: Acronyms

CCB Configuration Change Board

CCR Configuration Change Request

COURL Consolidated Observational User Requirements List

DAA Deputy Assistant Administrator

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems

NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information

NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information

Service

NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOS National Ocean Service

NQP NESDIS Quality Procedure

NWS National Weather Service

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OPPA Office of Projects, Planning & Analysis

OSGS Office of Satellite Ground Services

OSPO Office of Satellite and Product Operations

PAL Product Area Lead

PATRON (Product, Anomaly, Ticket, Related user Organization, and

Notification tool

POP Product Oversight Panel

SPSD Satellite Products and Services Division

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SPEEDS Satellite Product End-to-End Documentation System

SPSRB Satellite Products and Services Review Board

STAR The Center for Satellite Applications and Research

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